Trust us, the next time you’re surrounded by furries, which will be sooner rather than later, save yourself some embarrassment and avoid the following,
Do you have any other tips for furry-related interactions? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Cannons are coming to the Cubby Bear for a FREE show
Q101 and the Cubby Bear present a Pop-Up Performance by Cannons on Thursday, February 23.
- Q101 Pop-Up with Cannons
- Thursday, February 23rd
- The Cubby Bear
- 21+ Show
- Enter for a chance to win Guaranteed Entry passes at Q101.com
We can’t wait to see you there!
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Maneskin + Tom Morello = Gossip
Maneskin featuring the great Tom Morello here for their new song “Gossip” off the Italian rockers’ upcoming album, Rush! due January 20th.
Meat thief gets locked up
A man in Ohio has been locked up for the 70th time. According to an Ohio police department, Walmart reported a shoplifter who pushed a shopping cart full of various packaged meat and a suitcase out of the store without paying. The man then noted that he sold the meat to restaurants at half-price.
Any meat that couldn’t fit in the suitcase was moved to the dumpster outside. The man had several warrants out for his arrest, including two with the department that arrested him. He was arrested and booked for theft.
Wisconsin bans TikTok on government devices
I hope Justin isn’t planning on running for office in Kenosha anytime soon, because he would have to go without TikTok to do so. On Thursday, our neighbors announced that they would be banning TikTok from government devices. Governor Tony Evers ordered the ban after he said he consulted with the FBI and emergency management officials. He noted potential risks to privacy, safety and security. Evers’ order applies to most state agencies, with some exceptions like criminal investigators who may be using the app to track certain people.
Wisconsin joins nearly half of the states in the country in adding this ban.
Green Day drops an unreleased cover of Elvis Costello’s ‘Alison’
In preparation for the 25th anniversary reissue of their album Nimrod, Green Day dug into the archives and found a previously unreleased recording of the Elvis Costello classic, ‘Alison’.
The band demoed this song during the Nimrod recording sessions.
Prior to this, the trio released a never-heard-before demo of an unreleased song, “You Irritate Me“. The full anniversary edition of the album will be released on January 27 as a digital release, a 5xLP release, and a 3xCD release.
Wife beater Dana White decides his own punishment, which is no punishment at all
UFC president Dana White spoke to a crowd of media before the upcoming UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend. White is under fire for being caught slapping his wife in on New Year’s Eve in Cabo, Mexico, ironically weeks before the premier of his new Slap-Fighting League show on TBS.
White noted at the press conference that there was no excuse for his action and that it’s something he would have to “deal with” for the rest of his life. He said, “One thing I do want to clarify … is the people that are defending me. There’s never an excuse. I’m sure you guys have read some of the same stuff that I’ve seen. There’s no defense for this. People should not be defending me, no matter what. All the criticism that I’ve received this week, and will receive in the future, is 100-percent warranted.”
In terms of a possible punishment, he decided he would come up with one on his own. “What should the repercussions be? You tell me. I take 30 days off?” White asked. “How does that hurt me? Me leaving hurts the company. Hurts my employees. Hurts the fighters. Doesn’t hurt me. I could have left in 2016. Do I need to reflect? No, I don’t need to reflect. The next morning when I woke up … I own this. I’m telling you that I’m wrong.”
While I cannot speak for the rest of Q101, I personally find it fascinating that White gets to decide that he can skirt any sort of penalty, especially when he has been outspoken about people even joking about domestic violence in the past.
Hopefully this multi-millionaire can recover from a temporality bruised ego.
Mayor Lightfoot responds after email leak to Chicago teachers
Earlier this week, Lori Lightfoot’s campaign emailed an undisclosed amount of email addresses tied to Chicago Public Schools teachers in an effort to get student volunteers for her reelection campaign.
Lightfoot promoted an externship program while encouraging students to support their parents to vote for Lightfoot in the upcoming mayoral election.
The mayor responded on Thursday saying that she was “unaware” of these efforts until they had already been sent out. She said reaching out to CPS teachers was wrong specifically because she holds the office of mayor, and the campaign staff member now understands why the effort was incorrect.
Lightfoot’s biggest detractors, from the Chicago Teachers Union to her opposition in the mayoral race, have all condemned her actions.
Paramore share “C’est Comme Ca”
Paramore have shared another song from their upcoming album, This Is Why.
“C’est Comme Ça,” translates to “It’s Like That.” Listen to it here:
If you rub a banana peel on your face, you will look younger
If you are like Justin and starring down the barrel of hitting a new decade in your life, you might be interested in some natural botox remedies. Justin, who consumes roughly 35 bananas a week, has found a use for the peel after seeing this TikTok.
If you leave the remnants of the peel on their faces for 15 to 20 minutes before rinsing with cold water then moisturize, you (allegedly) will start to look younger.
Others have taken urine baths, fecal facials, “#3” scrubs, and more. A full list of unproven youth remedies can be found here.
See Justin’s great-grandma sink in the ‘Titanic’ as it returns to theaters next month
Arguably the greatest documentary of all-time, Titanic, will return to theaters next month as the film celebrates its 25th anniversary. Crew Members may remember the special place that this movie has in Justin’s heart, as not only was his great-grandma on the Titanic, but this was also the first time that he saw boobs.
Paramount Pictures will release it in 4K and 3D for a limited time beginning on February 10.
Chicago bookstore owner vents about $800 return, is the customer justified?
Rebecca George of Volumes Bookstore in Wicker Park has become Twitter’s main character for the day. She took to the app after a customer, who spent $800 on books in December, returned them after decided to redecorate after the holiday season.
George and the bookstore were flooded with support yesterday after the tweet was posted. Still, it raised the question, is the customer justified? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Metra unveils a new real-time train tracker
Metra has officially announced a new real-time train tracker that will give commuters up-to-date departure times, real-time mapping of trains, and the ability to plan out trips within the system. In order to implement the new system, Metra officials say that GPS trackers have been installed at more than 200 stations, along with more than 1,000 train cars. The rollout is expected to last for several months, with more trains added as the year moves along, the agency says.
Per NBC 5, “The tracker, clocking in at a cost of $26.7 million according to the agency, will roll out on Union Pacific lines, as well as the Southwest Service line, which serves the city’s southwestern suburbs, and the BNSF line, which serves the western suburbs.”
Kelly Clarkson didn’t need to go this hard on her cover of ‘All the Small Things’
On her most recent addition of Kellyoke, Kelly Clarkson decided to enter the pop punk universe and cover Blink-182’s ‘All the Small Things’. She had no right to kill it the way that she did.
Clarkson has covered a number of bangers, including ‘Black Hole Sun’, ‘Jumper’, and ‘How Soon is Now?’
50 Cent calls depression a “luxury”
“Where I’m from, you can’t afford to be depressed.” G-Unit rapper 50 Cent went off on a radio show this week. He noted, “depression is a luxury.” The Queens-born rapper went on to say, “You gotta pay the bills, right? So you gotta go to work,” he said. “You gotta get up, gotta go do what you gotta do. You got people right now that’s at work that don’t feel like being there. But they got responsibilities.”
What are your thoughts on his comments? The conversation lives on Facebook!
PREVIEW: Fall Out Boy’s new song
Jack White will be on American Pickers tonight
Jack White will make a special guest appearance on tonight’s American Pickers for the first time since 2012. He secured one a the rarest vehicles and wants to bring it back to life as a mobile recording studio at Third Man Records HQ in Nashville.
And the teaser:
Members of AFI, other punk rock all-stars unite to cover Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘1979’
Hunter Burgan of AFI, Wade McNeil of Alexisonfire, Jeremy Bolm of the outstanding LA hardcore outfit Touche Amore, among others, teamed up to put their own spin on the infamous Smashing Pumpkins song, ‘1979’.
Bolm and a similar group of misfits recently covered ‘Where Is My Mind?,’ as well.
Chicago traffic is now considered to be the second worst traffic in the world
Move over, Boston. Chicago now has the second worst traffic in the world, according to the analytics firm Inrix. They lead the country in congestion, only trailing London on a global scale. The average Chicago driver lost 155 hours sitting in traffic in 2022, up from 104 hours in 2021, and marking the second year in a row that Chicago nabbed the top spot in the United States.
Per WGN, the report points to fewer people choosing public transportation as one of the reasons there’s more congestion. Average weekday ridership on CTA buses and trains in October was only at 56% of the amount it was in 2019, and Metra weekday ridership for November was at 44% of pre-pandemic levels.
